"try" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- I tried vainly to lead him to the matter in hand.
- My eyes vainly tried to focus on something that should have been there but wasn't.
- "Then the police have vainly tried to lay hands on him?"
- The girl was a fighter, trying vainly to help them by moving her feet.
- He pulled and twisted his arms, trying vainly to free them.
- He was caught in a net, vainly trying to fight to freedom.
- And now there was nothing left for him to do, except to take the decisive step he had been vainly trying to put off.
- Laurie watched as he tried vainly to get someone's attention.
- Twice he opened his lips, and tried vainly to speak.
- He brought it across his chest, and vainly tried to roll over.
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